haha yeah i gotta changer her up a bit before the due date.. maybe something to differ from lilligant and so she seems like she can take a special hit or something, idk - i gotta play around more. i like yours a lot though man! i think its pretty stylistically homogenous with sugimori's drawings - i like the old watercolor looking ones too but in gen 3 and on they look just as polished and clean like yours. pretty dope man

I'm a huge fan of Deltora Quest, haha. I own all the books and one or two of the spinoff accessory books. And I watched a lot of the anime! GOD I LOVE DELTORA QUEST SO MUCH AND I AM SUPER PSYCHED TO FIND SOMEONE WHO LIKES IT SO MUCH THEY'D MAKE THEIR SMOGON USERNAME A REFERENCE TO IT. n__n Which book/series is your favourite? :> Mine's first series, City of the Rats/The Valley of Tears or maybe even The Sister of the South... lolol time to reread.

P.S. Is it cool if we use your WIP this issue, if you can't finish it? Birkal, ium, and I all thought it was fine in this state, but since it's a WIP, we'd understand if its inclusion made you uncomfortable.

I see...That doesn't mean you didn't spend any effort in making it look good though, and you know it.
Seriously, fill in some color and throw it back at the thread. Someone's gotta like it.
Anyway thanks!! If you submit yours I'm definitely backing you up too.

listen your design is solid man
you have a lot of talent and the idea behind your dude was really great
problem is, you have to sell it to a bunch of overcritical self-important nerds
so even if you don't break though to round two, you made a real kick ass image
and that doesn't diminish the skill that you have
or the things that you learned or the work that you did
its an incredibly slick design and i know it'll get far in the running